0 present participle of scrabble
1 to use your fingers to quickly find something that you cannot see:
That leaves many scrabbling for funds and leading a scrimping and saving existence.
In some areas we seem to be scrabbling around for projects.
The nursery voucher scheme wasted millions on bureaucracy and advertising, and resulted in providers competing for children, and parents scrabbling for places.
The public are entitled to information about such matters and cannot go scrabbling through tenders and agreements.
They are scrabbling on, through humiliation after humiliation, trying to defend their large-camps policy.
We are scrabbling around among the poor to make that distinction.
Desperate people are scrabbling for food.
I have seen them on many occasions: as soon as something sets off their metal detector, they begin scrabbling around and digging to try to find the object.
